Regis Philbin Quotes

I think most people realize that Barbara and Jenna are college kids, and to make such a big deal out of it is a bit ridiculous. At least now, the press has stopped.

Mayor de Blasio said that whenever he goes to a Yankee game he gets sick and tired of people booing and giving him the finger. Hey, what do you want? You're the mayor of New York City. It comes with the gig, pal.

Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.

Troubled celebrities are a dime a dozen.

Hillary Clinton, because she's the Democrats' presumptive 2016 front-runner, has become the target du jour. Frankly, I don't know how public figures get through it.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

For whatever reason, people just like to come out and say whatever they want to say about you when you're on TV.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you.

I am not normally a fan of organised tours: few public figures are, feeling themselves objects of constant curiosity.

I have never hidden my relationship and I have been called the worst names in the showbiz world.

I spend a fair amount of time chatting to black cab drivers in London.

I think people in the public eye have a problem - they can have security issues.

I can't really walk down the street as Brian Badonde without someone going, 'Bwark.'

A lot of kids my age can make a lot of mistakes, but college athletes that are in the spotlight, you have to grow up so much faster than regular students or regular kids your age because you are a public figure, so you get one shot, sometimes two.

The tabloids had a field day with 'Tipping The Velvet,' which was great for the viewing figures but not necessarily for the actors involved.

I am not looking or thinking that every move of mine will generate mass hysteria.

The moment I came out as a gay man, I never really thought of the consequences. Of course, the proverbial happened: it hits the newswires, and it's this big, big thing.

Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.

Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.

When we got married, we kind of kept it quiet because everybody was saying, 'Oh, Mickey and Minnie got married.'

What's been interesting is that the more famous the person is, the less they seem to care if I talk about them.

I grew up taking the Long Island Railroad from Baldwin, New York into Penn Station and walking upstairs to Madison Square Garden. Those are some of my favorite memories.

New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has it.

It's been perfect. I can still ride a subway and work with great people. I can't imagine being Julia Roberts. I don't have the fortitude to withstand that kind of attention.

I have never, not once, gone on television and not received some email or tweet or comment about my hair. Without fail. Isn't that absurd? All it does is make me want to shape my bangs into a sort of middle finger-like sculpture.